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View More A Different Aspect #31Author: Roger Trenwith
Sonar with David Torn – Tranceportation (Volume 1)
The second instalment of the collision of soundworlds known as Sonar and David Torn arrives by design rather by accident. Whereas Vortex was the result of Torn’s exploratory guitar finding a home amongst Sonar’s cyclical minimalist grooves after the music…
View More Sonar with David Torn – Tranceportation (Volume 1)The Decade in Review – Roger Trenwith
“Pick your ten best albums from the decade about to end” you said. Never ask me to do something like this again… I jest, I’m a glutton for punishment and we all love a good list, eh? Anyway, from a…
View More The Decade in Review – Roger TrenwithLed Bib
RIO Cinema, Dalston, London Sunday, 24th November 2019 An otherwise drifting grey November afternoon is given focus and brightened considerably by a visit to a splendid art deco cinema in the culture hub that is Dalston. Led Bib, a long-running…
View More Led BibMartin Archer – Anthropology Band
Martin Archer, creative hub of the Sheffield jazz/avant music scene, and main man behind Discus Music, has realised a long-held ambition with this album, presenting the same music in two strikingly different formats. The former relays the music in its…
View More Martin Archer – Anthropology BandKayo Dot – Blasphemy
Toby Driver is one of a few true musical visionaries in this corner of creativity, but there’s a good chance you have not heard of him. For many years now he has been steering the good ship Kayo Dot into…
View More Kayo Dot – BlasphemyJack O’The Clock – Witness
Living on the wrong side of The Pond, it is highly unlikely I will ever get to see the thoroughly beguiling modern skewed Americana construct who trade under the unlikely name of Jack O’The Clock cast their musical spells from…
View More Jack O’The Clock – WitnessHenry Cow – Cow Box Redux
This combination of the two volumes of The Road box, both originally released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Henry Cow in 2008, comes ten years later (sort of… ) as a 50th anniversary celebration of the band, and as…
View More Henry Cow – Cow Box ReduxDarkroom – The Noise Is Unrest
There is less time than there used to be. In these days of constant demands on our waking hours, instant communications, the endless frantic rush, it is hard to find the time to sit down and properly listen to an…
View More Darkroom – The Noise Is UnrestLed Bib – It’s Morning
The long-running U.K. exploratory-jazz-rock collective known as Led Bib awake to a new dawn with their latest album, It’s Morning, a fraught message struggling to leave the sender, transmitted into the hectic world in which we live. We find less…
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